Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Journalist; politics, history, rights, conflict, evirnmnt&climate, culture, data; Books Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji; Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment
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thediplomat.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Although Indians are predominantly meat eaters, Hindutva activists are enforcing a fanatic vegetarianism on everyone, irrespective of their beliefs, food, and cultural habits. Early in April, a video showing a group of men in a fish market in India’s national capital of New Delhi sternly asking vendors to close their businesses went viral on social media.
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tribunecontentagency.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
The Diplomat April 15, 2025 By Snigdhendu BhattacharyaEarly in April, a video showing a group of men in a fish market in India’s national capital of New Delhi sternly asking vendors to close their businesses went viral on social media. The men, some of them wearing saffron clothes, the color associated with Hindu nationalism, ordered the market’s closure, arguing that its presence next to a Hindu temple sullied the place of worship.
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shorturl.at | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
There has been a change of government in Delhi, and after many years the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come to power after ousting the Aam Aadmi Party government. One of the areas in Delhi is called Chittaranjan Park. Bengalis live here―not the lower middle class Bengalis, but the upper class Bengalis. And where the Bengalis live, it can’t be that there will be no fish market.
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thediplomat.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
71-year-old Mariam Alexander Baby has taken charge of the CPI(M), India’s largest leftist party, amid its worst organizational crisis. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), better known as the CPI(M), the largest Left party in the country, has a new general secretary — Mariam Alexander Baby, a former parliamentarian and state-level minister. The 71-year-old Baby is the second-oldest to come at the helm the party in its six decades’ history.
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tribunecontentagency.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
On March 17, violent clashes erupted in Nagpur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra between Hindus and Muslims. While rumors about the alleged desecration of a copy of the Quran reportedly triggered the rioting, communal tensions were being built up for weeks by Hindu right-wing groups over the tomb of the 17th-century Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
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The world order that Jean-Luc Godard explored in his 1967 film, La Chinoise, dramatically changed in a decade and further since then. It now awaits unexpected turns. In my latest for @Outlookindia, I describe how global order shifted at regular intervals https://t.co/zdZrRnCpMH https://t.co/U95rOXLJ6Q
In this piece for @boomlive_in, I write how JU students face intense vilification from politicians and a section of the media every time protests break out. https://t.co/VbxsW5rBqH
In my latest for @Outlookindia, published in the current issue, I write about the global rise in religious tourism, which is driven not only by growing religiosity across societies, but also government choices on infrastructure and right wing mobilisation https://t.co/HEETEXjIHO https://t.co/GbmguPdFbJ
